Regional Maintenance Engineer

About the role

The Regional Maintenance Engineer is a hands-on technical leader responsible for improving equipment reliability and reducing downtime across ADE West plants. This role partners closely with plant leadership and maintenance teams to troubleshoot complex issues, implement reliability strategies, and standardize maintenance practices. You will lead root cause analysis, drive continuous improvement, and support capital projects while ensuring safe, efficient, and reliable plant operations.

Responsibilities

• Provide hands-on electrical and mechanical troubleshooting support for complex equipment failures
• Lead root cause analysis (RCA) and implement corrective actions to prevent recurrence
• Analyze CMMS data to identify trends, high-frequency failures, and improvement opportunities
• Develop and deploy maintenance standards, including:
• Equipment narratives
• Troubleshooting guides
• Preventive maintenance (PM) strategies
• Standard work procedures
• Drive PM compliance and optimize maintenance programs using reliability-centered maintenance (RCM) principles
• Train maintenance teams, operators, and plant leadership on equipment, systems, and best practices
• Ensure effective use and accuracy of CMMS systems across the region
• Identify critical spare parts and establish optimized inventory levels
• Partner with plant leadership to ensure availability of key components
• Execute maintenance-related CAPEX projects in a matrixed organization
• Manage project scope, schedule, and budget for:
• Equipment installations
• Upgrades and refurbishments
• Facility improvements
• Oversee contractors and ensure compliance with safety, quality, and timeline requirements
• Support equipment installation, commissioning, and startup
• Improve key maintenance KPIs (Downtime, PM Compliance, MTBF, MTTR)
• Drive continuous improvement using data analysis, Pareto, and Lean methodologies
• Support facility layout optimization for material flow and safety compliance
• Partner with plant leadership, vendors, and OEMs to improve equipment performance
• Provide clear reporting and updates to regional and executive leadership
• Ensure compliance with EHS standards and regulatory requirements
• Promote a strong safety culture across all activities

Requirements

• This position must satisfy ITAR compliance requirements, therefore candidates must be U.S. Citizens or Permanent Resident Card Holders.
• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering
• 5+ years of experience in industrial or manufacturing environments
• Strong hands-on troubleshooting experience with:
• Motors, pumps, and cooling systems
• Industrial controls and electrical systems
• Furnaces and combustion systems
• Experience with CMMS systems and maintenance data analysis
• Proven experience with RCA and reliability improvement methods
• Ability to travel up to 60%

Qualifications

• Strong organizational and prioritization skills
• Ability to respond to equipment emergencies
• Excellent communication and cross-functional collaboration skills

Physical & Mental Demands

• Must be able to work in a sitting position for extended periods of time (at desk, while driving, and/or on airplane travel) in an office/industrial environment.
• Manual dexterity to perform data entry functions.
• Ability to bend, pull, stoop and reach to perform functions.
• Ability to lift 25-30 lbs.
• May be exposed to heat, fumes, noise, and humidity, etc.
• Must have the cognitive and mental capacity to perform essential job functions.
• Must be able to communicate effectively orally and in writing.
• Visual acuity to read documents, computer screens, files, etc.
• Ability to hear in person and via phone.

Additional

Provides both written and oral communication on an ongoing basis to both the Regional Operations Management and Executive Engineering.

Department

Engineering

Locations

Los Angeles, CA

Employment type

Full-time

About Bodycote North America

Our services are a vital part of many manufacturing processes. We make metal stronger, more durable, and more corrosion resistant. Servicing local and international clients from highly accredited facilities our experience and expertise ensures we deliver to the quality and reliability demanded by the markets we serve and the products we deliver.